Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Cape Verde and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing the Association to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Colin Newman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Harpers Bizarre,
Agitation Free,
Erykah Badu,
Terry Callier,
Juan Atkins,
Lou Reed,
Mo-Dettes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fat Boys,
Ponytail,
Man Parrish,
The Evens,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Index,
The Flesh Eaters,
CMW,
Kerri Chandler,
Stereo Dub,
the Normal,
Ronan,
R.M.O.,
Janne Schatter,
Whodini,
Talk Talk,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Max Romeo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Josef K,
The Associates,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Babytalk,
Eric Copeland,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ludus,
The Red Krayola,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pussy Galore,
The Blackbyrds,
Black Sheep,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bauhaus,
Cecil Taylor,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Gun Club,
The Young Rascals,
Radiohead,
Susan Cadogan,
The Monks,
Little Man,
The Searchers,
Connie Case,
Freddie Wadling,
Jeru the Damaja,
Cal Tjader,
Soulsonic Force,
Stetsasonic,
Carl Craig,
Anakelly,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gladiators,
Nick Fraelich,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.